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What is a thread?A UNIX process contains both the executing program and a bundle of resources such as file descriptor table and address space. In MACH a task contains a bundle of resources; threads handle all execution activities. All threads associated with a given task share the task’s resources.Thus  thread  is essentially a program counter, […]

 The basic signals on Unix -
Signals, to be short, are various notifications sent to a process in order to notify it of various “important” events. Each signal has an integer number that represents it (1, 2 and so on), as well as a symbolic name that is usually defined in the file /usr/include/signal.h. Each signal […]